@TheEmu Thanks for listening to me. Real questions, though I think I'm catching the answer subtextually: Do you think the Special Events Cards contribute to the iStripper experience or to the community? Has there been an Advent Calendar you bought on the last day of the window where you felt like you were getting a "good" deal?

though I could point out that buying 24 cards sight unseen to get one I want is tantamount to gambling

That is correct, but as the description of the Advent Calendar says (and has been pointed out in a few posts) you do not have to buy the cards "sight unseen" as you can wait until the last day to buy it, at which time you will know exactly what cards you are buying.

So what happens when you reach Jia Lissa's special event card in the ticket meter if you already have it (from a lucky scratch game)? You instead get nothing, or a ticket, or something else?

@TheEmu You're correct.My logic isn't perfectly transitive, though I could point out that buying 24 cards sight unseen to get one I want is tantamount to gambling. Both the gambling and the Advent calendar are completely transparent psychological *****, and the SECs are at the core. The SECs are the lure to incentivize purchases of things less desirable than the SEC. And a large piece of the SEC's desirability is precisely because it's been made (more) difficult/expensive to acquire, by design.

I'm not participating, not out of some logically inconsistent "morality" but simply because the only vote I have is my money. I've spent 0 credits trying to attain an SEC card and never will. It's a collective action problem. A prisoners dilemma. No subscriber would prefer a situation that makes it more difficult to buy a card than not. But as long as people continue to buy gated cards, the situation won't change.

@stevnev1 Just a different gamble. In this case it would be how many of those 24 cards I didn't want in the first place. Given that I've currently purchased 2023/4340 cards, we could guess I wouldn't like at least 12 of them on average. So the pre-order definitely involves paying money for an unknown outcome.

@PascalsWager - I am sure that you do indeed have a valid argument, but I still do not see it. You still seem to be objecting to the existance of a non-gambling alternative as if having this alternative was worse, or at least no better, than just having the gambling version. I quite understand the objection to SEC cards in general, and to having them as rewards for gambling - but I can see no reason why any of this affects the morality of buying the Advent Calendar (other than an imagined connection that seems to exist only in your head).

@TheEmu Yes, all things could be bought with the Joker but why? There's only one thing with scarcity value, the SE cards. That value is artificial, and it's designed that way on purpose to incentivize purchases, either of 30 cards you were unsure of, or gambling. This can easily be seen in the conversations on the boards about the process, where nobody says "I'm so lucky to have won a Melissa card." If they're excited enough to write aboout it, it's because they won an SE card or a Joker. Those have rarity. Just like good loot in a loot box.

You get that, right? I'm not talking about a hypothetical future where a month from now I really wish I'd bought the advent calendar. I'm talking about the actual present where people are gambling for past and present SE cards and Jokers. It's very obvious that while some people are enjoying the endorphin rush of the game, others are with the hope /disappointment of getting/not-getting those cards.

Waiting a return of "favorite", you can manage some playlists with your favorite models.

@Happy1
Not the good topic for your question.
By the way, have you tried to synchronize with servers, or log in again with your ID and password ?
You can also quit and restart the software, or shutdown your computer and internet router then reboot them.

I consider myself very lucky, too... When I started to test my luck today, I was missing only about 20 cards (not counting the Virtuagirl Classic 480p cards). My slot machine credits didn't get me much, but scratch game brought good results.

After I had stopped playing, I had won 15 new "regular" cards + Jia Lissa's new special event card + 1 new Joker card + the only special event card that I was missing from before (Skye Blue's "Bend to My Will")... and in addition to getting all that, I have more credits than I had before I started playing(!)

@bamboombamm
Joker card is a card that you can exchange to any card at any time, even to a special event card.

You guys are lucky, I played the scratch card for 14 times, got 50 credit, 2x 1080p card, 10 credit and a 3k card.

What is a joker card?

they are both gorgeous but i would choose Belka

@lukaszr LOL dude LOL

Who's cleaning your windows?

My mom.

It is something wrong with the RNG for betting 1, 2, and 5 credit?

I bet x20(approx) on 5 credit, but couldn't get at least one -50%, max -30%

But betting x50(approx) on 2 credits gets me x2 -70% and a few of -50%

How about scratch card?

The first 2 scratch gets me 50 credit and a 1080p card.
But 5 to 12, I get nothing.

Or...

@PascalsWager - OK, that I can sort of understand (just) but it is not what you first said. If it is the possibility that part of what you buy will somehow in future be connected with some gambling game then this applies to all of the cards, not just the SECs or the Jokers - they can all be won via various gambles and all can be obtained using a Joker.

I've lost access to my collection due to some update apparently. Please fix this as I'm not comfortable deleting anything from my computer, nor should I have to, to make the program work.

I'm happy with Black Friday! I spent 19.98 € on the scratch game. I won enough credits for the rest of the week. Now have 5 lottery ticket and two SEC. And 14 more cards😊

...not always even the people you meet in the business but the ***** and harsh repercussions you face from people back home...

Fair point and indeed tragic. Working for iStripper, like any other adult website, requires that a performer can manage the backwash. I suspect that many of them cut themselves off from people back home, but that's only based on the odd anecdote. Maybe many of them regret having done it, but most seem to cope - if I thought otherwise I wouldn't want anything to do with adult products or services.

I've stopped playing the games of chance. I might reconsider if Totem published the probablilities associated with them.

Well, I certainly wasn't expect that! I just spent a bunch of time going through 51 scratch cards. After all of that, I ended up with 12 credits more than when I had started. I wasn't paying attention to the rewards meter, though, so I was extremely surprised to see that I managed to win the Jia Lissa SE card after my 50th scratch card! I still very much disagree with these gambling events but it was kinda nice to end up being paid 12 credits to waste time trying (and succeeding to my surprise) to win the SE card. Now I can rest happy knowing I don't have to deal with any more of this bullshit for a while!

This feature use to exist a long time ago, so it shouldn't be a big deal to re-incorporate it into the software. If I remember correctly, it has the effect of having your favorite cards show up more often. I would love to see this again.

As far as I can work out Totem have released another SEC with no defined pathway to obtain it.

These Black Friday offers appear to be two gambling games and a discount offer where you need at least 100 old cards not in your collection to obtain the maximum discount.

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Any update on when we will get an option to favorite cards in collection? I'm starting to get a lot of cards now and I want to separate my favorite ones from the rest :/

@PascalsWager
The advent calendar is not a gamble, you buy 24 cards (with the 20% discount if you are Premium member) and you have the 25th which is a SEC.

@ORCLUST You have purchased the advent calendar too. Please check your account history in your profile. Let me know

@TheEmu Because Totem connected the two with Joker cards. I'm saying I'm not buying it now because Totem has made these cards a gambling reward for later. I want them to see as few purchases of "special events cards" as possible with my money or that of others.

Special events cards are gated behind two things: a time window, and the purchase of a month's worth of cards you may or may not want. If you missed it, for whatever reason, the only way you can access that card is by winning a Joker in gambling. Some people on this forum have spent way too much money doing just that. I'm not doing either. Nobody should. It's psychological ***** due to scarcity value and punctuated rewards.

Same thing people are mad at EA for with loot boxes for years. Tiny subset pays a lot, making it a financially viable decision for the company. Rest of the people watch, annoyed.

I paid 99 euros for 1100 credits + 220 bonus credits and only got 900 credits.

@Dfner thanks! I got my 2nd joker card now. I also managed to get a small profit so I'm stopping now too.

Does Joker cards stack? Or does my current one dissapear if I get another one.

You can have more than one Joker card at a time, see pic above.

I have had very good luck mainly with scratch game. I have played enough to win the Jia Lissa card and the Joker card, and during all that I have won enough 100 credits / 50 credits so that after all this, I have a one new Joker card, Jia Lissa's SEC, and more than a dozen new cards and I have more credits than I had before I started

Better stop now while being ahead in the game... (well, I'll better restock the credits also with that 20% reload bonus)...

I stopped after 98 scratch cards and a lot of spins.
I got 10 lottery tickets, the Jia Lissa SEC and the joker card.
I won 1 SEC of Skye Blue, 1 card, 2x 100 credits, 6x 50 credits and very often 10credits, a lot of 1 bonus credits in the scratch games.
I won 4 cards for 50%, a lot of one and two stars in the slot machine.
In the end I paid 0 credits.

@TheEmu Hehe; you are right ; ) Sorry about the *****

Rex said he was taking it up with the developer

Let me check. Thank you

Ummm.... not for me. ***** through 24 credits. Received one star on one spin. Rest were useless discounts of 10% on cards i don't want.

You pay your money and you take your chances....

Enough gambling for me.

I played 80 scratch cards so far and won the missing SEC and got Jia Lissa SEC from the black friday event. I made many spins on the slot machine and won 4 cards for 50%.

I'm back at 0 credits paid.

@pantalone

My post is actually off topic, since this has nothing to do with iStripper, but just wanted to point out that the problem is not always even the people you meet in the business but the ***** and harsh repercussions you face from people back home.

This is one very tragic example (see 4th comment in the comment window for details):
https://www.indexxx.com/m/stella-*****

I. Don't. F***ing. Believe. It. I got 4 stars on my second spin. Maybe they have some higher win rates this time, because I've never been this lucky in my entire life.

I believe it is running at a higher payout at the moment. I don't know how much longer it will last. I have hit 250 bonus 3 times. I want my 5000!!!!

I. Don't. F***ing. Believe. It. I got 4 stars on my second spin. Maybe they have some higher win rates this time, because I've never been this lucky in my entire life.

If people would just play the games. So far I got both SEC cards offered recently and a joker card and I came out ahead of what I started in credits. I hit 250 twice on the slot machine. I want that 5000 bonus but I know luck is not on my side with that one....

I would imagine its based on the amount of credits spent. I finished the bar, closed and re-opned the software and I'm now on a new bar with just lottery tickets, however I don't appear to have received my joker.

• Edit* Just came through, not sure of someone did something, if so thank you :)

I bought 15 scratch cards so far and made a few spins on the slot machine and have three lottery tickets now.

But I paid only 105credits so far and got 4 cards for 50% from the slot machine and another card and Skye Blue SEC from the scratch game.

@TheEmu That's on the list too :)


Hopefully this will all be redundant soon, I know in one of the threads about the new auto update behaviour someone had an issue with the software creating Start Menu items without their intervention. Rex said he was taking it up with the developer so I'm guessing some solution from Totem might be forthcoming.

How much does it move if you make a purchase?

I got a couple cards and took a couple spins and it's crawling. lol

I had just in mind that most of the ladies appearing on iStripper are more generally working in the adult entertainment business and all companies are not so kind as Totem is.

Ah yes. The adult industry has more than it's fair share of are exploitative individuals (I don't usually use such polite language in this respect, but I don't want to get banned). I imagine the girls have to learn to spot them and avoid them, as do those of us who are consumers. One hopes that most girls retire because they've found their kindly oligarch, rather than because of a bad experience.

Actually, I asked one, once (circumstances witheld). She said that most men are ok really, although the "agencies" did precious little for their money, and it wasn't the problem that the media presented. But then she was bright enough to avoid the idiots - she was working on her doctoral thesis at the time.

@haruchai - they are the second thing (in the start menu) that I turn off. I get rid of the Tiles first and reduce it down to a simple start menu.

Here's my 'stealth' Start Menu' item :)

(Editied for privacy, obviously)

Hehe, @Manue ask other to post a screenshot. Everyone puzzles over the context menu and does not have this entry on the screen. I think we should get a screenshot of @Manue to see what we're missing.😉

Will the ticket line move up if you purchase credits or is it just for the three games?

Just for the games, I did a reload and the line didn't change.

Will the ticket line move up if you purchase credits or is it just for the three games?

Does Joker cards stack? Or does my current one dissapear if I get another one.